Device for repairing car-wheels.



L. H. KiNNEY;

DEVICE FOR REPAIRING CAR WHEELS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 6, I916.

LQ35A587. Patented July 31, 1917.

Attorney ITED STATES DEVICE FOR REPAIRING CAR-WHEELS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 31, 1917.

Application filed September 6, 1916. Serial No. 118,693.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LLOYD I-I. KINNEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Scranton, in the county of Lackawanna and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Repairing Car-Wheels, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to railway rolling stocks, and the nature and objects thereof will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art to which it appertains in the light of the following explanation of the accompanying drawings illustrating what I now believe to be the preferred embodiment, or mechanical expression, of my invention from among other forms and arrangements within the spirit of the invention or the scope of the appended claims.

However, an object of the invention is to provide means whereby a railway car wheel may be quickly and temporarily repaired when its flange or other part has become fractured.

In addition to the foregoing my invention comprehends improvements, in the details of construction and arrangement of parts, to be hereinafter more fully described and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings in which similar and corresponding parts are desig nated by the same characters of reference throughout the several views in which they appear;

Figure l, is a view in front elevation of a car wheel, illustrating the application thereto of my invention.

Fig. 2, is a view in vertical section of the device inolosed upon the car wheel, and

Fig. 3, is a view in perspective of one of the mating sections of the device.

With reference to the drawings, 1 indicates the tread of a car wheel, and 2 its flange. WVhen a car wheel is fractured, the feature usually extends radially and if a quick repair is not made to retain the fractured parts together, rapid disintegration of the wheel under strain may soon follow.

My invention comprises in its essentials semi-circular members 3 and 4, each formed with a substantially radial flange 5, which is adapted to partially cover the face of the car wheel adjacent its periphery or flange, an inner flange 6 formed with said flange 5 being adapted to extend radially and partially cover the inner face of the car wheel flange, The flanges 5 and 6 are integrally formed so as to provide a semi-annular recess 7, adapted to receive the flange of the car wheel.

In use the sections 3 and at of the device are engaged upon the flange of the car as illustrated in Fig. 1, and the one of the adjacent terminals of each section is provided with an integrally formed hooked member 8, while the opposed terminal of the opposite member is provided with an apertured lug, in which the said hooked member is received. In this manner adjacent ends of the device are connected together. The opposite mating terminals of the sections 3 and 4 are each provided with apertured lugs 10, throughone of which a bolt 11 passes, a nut 12 being applied to the threaded end of said bolt, and rotated to draw together the terminals of the sections and thereby secure the device upon the car wheel.

The sections of the device are preferably formed of malleable steel, pressed into shape, although the sections may be cast, forged, or formed in any other manner desired. In this manner the strain upon a fractured car wheel is removed sufficiently to prevent disintegration of the same during travel of the car between stations.

While I have illustrated and described my invention with some degree of particularity, I realize that in practice various alterations thereof may be made, and I therefore re serve the right and privilege of changing the form of the details of construction and arrangement of parts without departing from the spirit of the invention or the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A temporary repair device for car wheels, comprising a pair of semi-annular members adapted. to engage and surround the flange of the car wheel and to engage both sides of the flange, and means for detachably connecting the terminals of said members together.

2. A temporary repair device for car wheels comprising a pair of semi-annular members having grooves adapted to receive the flange of the car wheel, and means for detachably connecting the terminals of the sections together.

3. A temporary repair device for car Wheels, comprising a pair of semi-annular grooved members adapted to recelve therein the flange of the ear wheel, means for flex ibly connecting one of the opposed terminals of the members, and means for drawing together the opposite terminals thereof.

4. A temporary repair 7 device for car Wheels comprising semi-annular grooved members adapted to receive the flange of the car Wheel, one of the adjacent terminals of the members being provided with a hook and an apertured lug to receive the hook whereby said terminals are flexibly held together, apertured lugs on the opposite terminals of the members, and a bolt extending 15 through said lugs, and a nut applied to the bolt for drawing together said terminals.

In testimony whereof I afiiX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

C. D. QUIGK,' Tz-ios. Gorr.

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